Lahore lynching victim identified as local glasscutter

LAHORE: A man named Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore’s Nishtar Colony police station on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched to death by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his brother Naeem.

Speaking to Dawn.com, officials at the Nishtar Colony police station confirmed that Muhammad Saleem had approached the police to register a murder case against protesters who brutally killed and then torched his brother’s body.

According to DawnNews, Muhammad Saleem said his brother worked as a glass cutter and had nothing to do with yesterday’s church bombings in Lahore.